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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNASCAR truck racer Ray Ciccarelli says he's quitting after Confederate flag ban
Ciccarelli is a 50-year-old racer. He currently participates in the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, driving the No. 49 Chevrolet Silverado for CMI Motorsports.
Not much longer, it would appear.
On Wednesday, NASCAR announced that it was banning the flying of Confederate flags at its races. Also Wednesday, Ciccarelli shared a message on his Facebook page indicating he will quit racing after the 2020 season:
Well its been a fun ride and dream come true but if this is the direction Nascar is headed we will not participate after 2020 season is over, i dont believe in kneeling during Anthem nor taken ppl right to fly what ever flag they love. I could care less about the Confederate Flag but there are ppl that do and it doesnt make them a racist all you are doing is f****** one group to cater to another and i aint spend the money we are to participate in any political BS!! So everything is for SALE!! Sarah Ciccarelli
Out of 18 career races on the NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series, Ciccarelli has placed in the top 10 once.
To quote Ciccarelli, The direction NASCAR is headed is a big deal on this day. The professional racing league announced it will from this moment forward ban the Confederate flag at its events.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/motorsports/nascar-truck-racer-ray-ciccarelli-says-he-s-quitting-after-confederate-flag-ban/ar-BB15j5QA?ocid=ob-tw-enus-677
Skittles
(153,111 posts)vercetti2021
(10,156 posts)Nascar is done with ya'll country bumpkins
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)We had one close to my house growing up. That is where everyone went on Saturday night in the spring and summer. It was full of really scary people. I quit going my Senior year in HS because I got into a heated argument with a nut.
Ilsa
(61,690 posts)Who?
He won't be missed.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)Bye Felicia.
GusFring
(756 posts)MichMan
(11,868 posts)GusFring
(756 posts)RandiFan1290
(6,221 posts)MichMan
(11,868 posts)Buckeye_Democrat
(14,852 posts)Would he be upset about such a ban then?
jmowreader
(50,528 posts)Daniel Suarez, a Mexican citizen, is a Cup driver.
highplainsdem
(48,908 posts)Link to tweet
Drum
(9,090 posts)oasis
(49,326 posts)napi21
(45,806 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)LonePirate
(13,408 posts)Those racists sure have some selective and conflicting values.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,287 posts)Drum
(9,090 posts)What a huge loss for the new confederacy
Freedomofspeech
(4,221 posts)Go back to you county fair's. You are so vitally important to life.
SunSeeker
(51,511 posts)NRaleighLiberal
(60,006 posts)unblock
(52,116 posts)of course, the reality is that the vast majority of people who retire do not do it for some political statement of the moment.
he's clearly a hack and i guarantee that if he thought he had a realistic shot at big money he'd take an action other than retiring.
in other words, he already decided to retire, he's just claiming one reason to hide a more embarrassing reason.
Cosmocat
(14,558 posts)hes gotta be losing $$$.
Very likely he was thinking about quiting before now, but believes what he is saying, using that as an excuse, possibly trying to build conservative cred to turn toward that easy con huckster $$$ if he can.
yonder
(9,657 posts)and go back to running booze the way your good daddy told you.
EarlG
(21,934 posts)oasis
(49,326 posts)Hassler
(3,369 posts)Until it gets tossed in a river.
TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)Norbert
(6,038 posts)starts, in the truck series, at 50 years old.
Is this really him "leaving" or did his sponsors already tell him he's being dropped and this is an easier excuse then that he just sucks?
Mopar151
(9,974 posts)Out of money, sponsors, or friends. Sponsors don't like whiny losers. And they've heard this story, many times. This place doesn't deserve me? Whatever....
nm
dawg day
(7,947 posts)Quixote1818
(28,918 posts)JHB
(37,154 posts)VOX
(22,976 posts)Last edited Thu Jun 11, 2020, 03:49 AM - Edit history (1)
As in, How dare you put the needs of those damn *bleep* first, BEFORE before the delusional needs of us useless white trash?
Elwood P Dowd
(11,443 posts)There are three types of drivers in that series ; really young guys (some even teenagers) trying to learn the ropes and hopefully advance to Xfinity or CUP; older experienced guys are who are decent enough drivers to make a good living driving the truck series but not good enough to advance much; and then there are guys like Ciccarelli who are there to just to fill out the starting grid and hopefully not get in the way and cause too many wrecks.
This is a terrible loss for NASCAR. All 3 members of the Ciccarelli Fan Club will no longer be buying tickets to future races.
Please note that at some of the Truck Series events you might see a CUP guy or Xfinity guy in the field. I know 2-time CUP Champion Kyle Bush owns his own truck team and sometimes runs in them. He usually wins.
jayfish
(10,037 posts)worships the flag of a traitor nation made up of slavers. Got it. I wonder what they would have been doing during the Anthem?
RockRaven
(14,898 posts)send a big old "Bye Felicia" in their direction?
And take golf with you!!!
stopbush
(24,392 posts)malaise
(268,693 posts)Take your loser flag and fuck off
Hav
(5,969 posts)Slowly getting rid of the racists.
I also love how some always stress the importance of freedom when it's of interest to them but deny the same privileges so easily for others.
Demovictory9
(32,421 posts)Happy Hoosier
(7,215 posts)bluecollar2
(3,622 posts)MineralMan
(146,254 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)MichMan
(11,868 posts)Since I have no interest in Soccer for example, I wouldn't even bother to read a post about the sport much less bother to comment on it.